Anoushka Singh^{RN, MSc, PhD}

Anoushka Singh is a post doctoral Researcher at Toronto Western Hospital. She is an RN, with a good knowledge of epidemiology, methodologies with 17 years of experience in clinical trials and disease registries in neuro-spine.

Her expertise is in functional outcomes and QOL measures, development of conceptual frameworks for understanding the fundamental implications of spinal injury/diseases on QALY’s and health outcomes research.  Dr Singh is the Associate Project Lead on Access to Care and timing (ACT) project at the Rick Hansen Institute, and the aim is to build a simulation model that will describe the processes of care from the time of injury until discharge into the community for individuals sustaining a traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) in Canada. She has several publications in peer reviewed journals.

Publications:

1.     Solanki G, Singh A and Crockard H A. Artificial intelligence: Can it identify the rheumatoid neck? (Abstract) British Journal of Neurosurgery 1997; 11, (5) p 466.

2.     Kane PJ, Singh A, El-Mahdy WL, Powell MP, Crockard HA (London): Intramedullary tumors of the spinal cord: an audit of the surgical outcome.British Journal of Neurosurgery December 1999.

3.     Singh A and Crockard H A. Quantitative assessment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy by a simple walking test. Lancet. 1999 Jul 31; 354(9176): 370-3.

4.     Singh A, Crockard HA, Platts A, Stevens J. Clinical and radiological correlates of severity and surgery-related outcome in cervical spondylosis. J Neurosurg 2001 Apr; 94 (2 Suppl): 189-198.

5.     Crockard H Alan, Cheesman A, Steel T, Revesz T, Holton JL, Plowman N, Singh A, Crossman J et al. A multidisciplinary team approach to skull base chondrosarcomas. J Neurosurg 2001 Aug; 95 (2): 184-189.

6.     Crockard H Alan, Steel T, Plowman N, Singh A, Crossman J et al. A multidisciplinary team approach to skull base chordomas. J Neurosurg 2001 Aug; 95 (2): 175-183.

7.     Singh A and Crockard HA. Comparison of seven different scales used quality severity of cervical spondylotic myelopathy and post-operative improvement. Journal of Outcome Measurement. 2001 Aug; 5 (1): 798-818.

8.     Singh A, and Crockard H A. Functional assessment in Cervical Myelopathy: by a Timed Walking Test.  -  (Abstract) JBJS Supplement (2), November 2002 issue.

9.     Singh A, Gnanalingham KK. Casey AT and Crockard A. Use of quantitative assessment scales in cervical spondylotic myelopathy – survey of clinicians’ attitudes. Acta Neurochir (Wein) (2005) 147: 1235-1238.

10.  Ng J, Gnanalingham KK, Stokes O, Singh A, Casey A. Anterior cervico-thoracic osteophytes: an unusual cause of dysphagia. 147: 1235-1238. Br J Neurosurg. 2005 Apr; 19(2): 173-4.

11.  Singh A, Gnanalingham K, Casey A and Crockard A. Quality of life assessment using the Short Form -12 (SF12) in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy: comparison with SF - 36. Spine 2006 Mar 15; 31(6): 639-43.

12.  Singh A, Choi D, and Crockard A. Use of walking data in assessing operative results for cervical spondylotic myelopathy - Long term follow up and comparison with controls.  Spine 2009 May 20;34(12):1296-1300.

13.  Fehlings MG and Singh A. Editorial: Measuring quality of life outcomes in spine clinical trials. J Neurosurg Spine 2009, November:509–511.

14.  Furlan JC, Noonan V, Singh A, and Fehlings MG. Journal of Neurotrauma. Assessment of Impairment in Patients with Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review of the Literature,ahead of print. doi:10.1089/neu.2009.1152.

15.  Furlan JC, Noonan V, Singh A, and Fehlings MG. Journal of Neurotrauma. Assessment of disability in patients with acute traumatic spinal cord injury: A systematic review of the literature. ahead of print. J Neurotrauma. 2010 Mar 31. [Epub ahead of print].

16.  Cadotte D, Singh A, Fehlings MG., The timing of surgical decompression for spinal cord injury. F1000 Medicine Reports 2010, 2:67 (doi:10.3410/M2-67).

 17.   Fehlings MG, Wilson J, Singh A, Craven C, Ahn H, Drew B, Ford M. Defining the role of early surgical decompression after traumatic spinal cord injury: Results of a Canadian multicenter study. Neurosurg Focus 2011 Mar;30(3):A16-17.

 18.   Barnes A, Lewis R, Noonan V, Santos A, Atkins D, Singh A, Burns A, Soril L, Fehlings M, Sun B, Zhang J, Donald S, Cheung A, Townson A, Willms R, Belanger L, Batke J, Street J, Kwon B, Dvorak M. Building a health progression model to evaluate long-term outcomes for people with spinal cord injury. Can J Surg 2011 Jun; 54(3):S8.

 19.   Gurling J, Santos A, Lewis R, Noonan V, Atkins D, Soril L, Singh A, Fehlings M, Burns A, Sun B, Donald S, Townson A, Willms R, Belanger L, Batke J, Street J, Kwon B, Dvorak M. Building a discrete-event simulation model to assess and investigate the system of care in British Columbia for SCI patients. Can J Surg 2011 Jun; 54(3):S8-S9.

 20.   Noonan V, Farry A, Baxter D, Singh A, Fehlings Soril L, Kwon B, Dvorak M. The incidence and prevalence of traumatic spinal cord injury in Canada. Can J Surg 2011 Jun; 54(3):S9.

 21.   Soril L, Santos A, Noonan V, Lewis R, Singh A, Fehlings M, Atkins D, Dvorak M. Modeling the Processes of Care for Patients with Traumatic SCI in British Columbia. The Spine Journal 2011 Oct;11(10S): 49S.